Carla Gaiano (17 July 1925 in

Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...

– 17 October 2009 in

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), known professionally as Carla Boni, was an

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singer.

Life and career

Boni worked as a singer for

RAI (), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels a ...

, the Italian state radio and television network, since 1951. She sang the Italian version of the song "

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". She then won the

Sanremo Music Festival 1953 The Sanremo Music Festival 1953 (), officially the 3rd Italian Song Festival (), was the third annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 29 and 31 January 1953, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by ...

with Flo Sandon's, singing "Viale d'autunno". In 1955, Boni won the

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with the song E stelle 'e Napule", which she sang with her husband,

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. In 1956, she released a new version of the standard " Mambo Italiano", which went on to become her greatest hit. In 1957, she released the song "La casetta in Canadà". During her career she formed a band with her husband,

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and

Giorgio Consolini Giorgio Consolini (28 August 1920 – 28 April 2012) was an Italian singer. Biography Consolini was born on 28 August 1920, in Bologna. In 1954, he won the Sanremo Music Festival in partnership with Gino Latilla, with the song "Tutte le mamme ...

. During the 1990s she introduced a new version of "Mambo Italiano". In 2007, she pulled out of the making of an album which was to be titled ''Aeroplani e angeli'', with songs written by Alessandro Orlando Graziani.Obituary in ''Il Corriere''
/ref> On 5 October 2008, Carla Boni participated in an event commemorating

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guitarist) twelve years after his death, which was sponsored by the Municipal Authorities of

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and by the Authorities of the

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. Although seriously ill, in 2009 she shot a music video for the song "Portami in India".

Death

She died in

, aged 84, after a long illness. Her funeral was held at the

Santa Maria in Montesanto Santa Maria in Montesanto is a titular minor basilica church in Rome, in the Rione Campo Marzio, which stands in Piazza del Popolo, between Via del Corso and Via del Babuino. It is also known as the Church of the Artists (). The church is pop ...

church, known as the "Church of artists".Biography in ''Il Corriere''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boni, Carla 1925 births 2009 deaths Sanremo Music Festival winners Musicians from Ferrara Singers from Rome 20th-century Italian women singers Burials at the Cimitero Flaminio